Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother Dzhokhar, 19, have entered the history of terrorism with a horrific attack that killed three people, including a boy of eight, and wounded another 176 at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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In the early days of the European Communities (later, European Union) many American observers remained skeptical about the “European experiment” and its potentialities.

By Nachik Navoth
(Former Deputy Head of the Mossad, Israel's foreign
intelligence agency)

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Media is a powerful communication device that can either be used for educating & informing people or can be exploited for diverse intelligence activities and operations.

Natalia Tereshchenko
(Defence & Diplomacy  Expert )

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With recent talks emerging on EU blacklisting Hezbollah and pressure to do so from countries, such as the US and Israel have marked another opportunity for Europe to strengthen its Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regulations and increase investigations on its own soil.

Dr Nicolas Laos
(Economic and Political Analyst)

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The contemporary crisis of the Greek society calls for and precipitates several societal, economic and political changes. However, for several years, “structural reforms” have been sought and declared by several political actors, but they have never been achieved.

(As in death by hanging)

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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In a recent commentary published in the London Observer, Nick Cohen thoroughly demolishes the untruths of the “bailout” currently destroying Greece. He writes, in part:

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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As the Samaras regime continues to strangle Greek society with more brutal austerity, the question of when a popular uprising may happen has returned to the forefront.

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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Recent terrorist incidents in Greece have been greeted with the customary huff-and-puff from the media and the inevitable armchair “experts.” As usual, the incidents were victimless save the explosion of a makeshift bomb inside a mall in Athens, where two security guards escaped with only slight injuries.

Col. Rose Mary Sheldon
(Department of History, Virginia Military Institute, USA)

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When I wrote my dissertation on Roman intelligence gathering, there was little literature on the subject of intelligence in the ancient world, and it was hopelessly scattered throughout professional journals generally unknown to the general public. 

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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Greek governments cannot be accused of pursuing terrorists, suspected and/or confirmed, persistently and effectively.

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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Governments in democracies are expected to defend the constitution and the laws of the Nation and do their utmost to protect and enhance the national interest.

Nickolaos Mavromates
(Security Analyst- Historian)

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Ankara being a master in the field of Diplomacy is well known. Turkey's Byzantine-Anatolian heritage combined with the influence of Sunni and Alevi Islam converses by itself.

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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I often wonder how long it takes to begin believing your own lies.

John M. Nomikos
(RIEAS Director)

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Academic intelligence studies are now a firmly –established part of sociology, security studies, political studies, anthropology, international relations, defense studies and history in many universities in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asian countries.

Dr. George D. Vardangalos
(Development Manager in RIEAS)

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RIEAS presents Dr. George D. Vardangalos Report titled “The Greek Great Depression (January 2011 – October 2012).” 

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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The Greek “democratic” system that emerged after the fall of the military junta in 1974 is breathing its last. It goes down in history as a unique mix of corruption, nepotism, political fraud, robbery, and unabashed manipulation of an electorate that was all too eager to offer its vote in exchange for “socialization through borrowing.” And as the ancien regime politicians are making their exit, the question that arises is what will fill the vacuum thus created.

Dr. George D. Vardangalos
(RIEAS Development Manager)

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Greece revised on 5th October the depth of the recession it suffered last year, saying that business activity had contracted by 7.1 percent instead of a previous estimate of 6.9 percent.The Greek statistics authority issued the new estimate of GDP based on 2010 prices. [1] GDP for 2011, calculated at 2010 prices, amounted to 206.4 billion Euros compared with 222.2 billion Euros for 2010 (7.1% reduction).

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

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 Chancellor Merkel visited Greece in order to express her solidarity to the Greek Government over needed reform. At least this was the main objective according to German spokesmen speaking on the eve of the trip. Was she successful in this endeavor, and if the answer is “yes,” how so?